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The phrase "an old gal" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used informally to refer to an older woman, often in a friendly or affectionate manner.
Example: "My grandmother is an old gal who still loves to tell stories from her youth."
Alternatives: "an elderly lady" or "a senior woman".
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Anyone who can explain what in the hell an old gal like me is supposed to do with her heart will receive a free "Maxine the Machine" campaign button!
Anna Calder-Marshall plays, with deadpan hilarity, an old gal called Moll who is reluctant to leave her flat in spite of ominous signs: panic flight from the city, the army out on the streets and nature going berserk, with reeds and wild mushrooms bursting through the pavements and voles seen coming out of Paperchase.
"Running has started to hurt my knees because I'm an old gal now".
Later, with great dramatic flair, he yelled DO YOU BELIEVE and smacked an old gal in the forehead with the heel of his palm.
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She had been a feminist journalist and poet, something of a good old gal, who -- unhappily married -- found herself raising oranges in remote inland Florida and turning her hand to fiction.
Rita was a good old gal.
"That is a big old gal," Bergeron Love whispered.
Cinnamon's a good old gal.
What a surprise to get home, check your e-mail and find a me-mail andm the old gal.
There were shouts of derision as hundreds of men crowded around her, and she almost succumbed to stage fright before hearing a voice whisper: "Go it, old gal, you're doing fine, give it 'em".
For this old gal, it turned into an exciting career.
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